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A list of 12 albums
This is a list of 12 albums that were 'important' to me at some point, in chronological order. For no good reason.
1. 1999 - Prince (first album ever procured via nagging. Has since only worked one other time successfully, when drunkenly hectoring Warren Ellis for a copy of Horse Stories after a Dirty 3 gig - "all right mate, you can have it for... ( Read more... ) -
Thesis! Rad!
Since my life is taken up almost exclusively by school and writing occasionally for Mess + Noise, Inpress or ToneDeaf (all of which you can find at my blogspot linked to above, latest entry an interview with Belle and Sebastian!) I've decided to turn my LiveJournal, at least temporarily, into my thesis diary.
The topic of my thesis is -
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My Poll of 2010
TOP TEN ALBUMS ( Read more... ) -
Further assessing, more lists!
Every year the local paper I write for asks me to do a big annual poll. Here are my results for this year's ( Read more... ) -
Assessing the decade receding
Dear Readers ( Read more... ) -
Two
The song 'Two' by The Antlers. It is the only song I've heard in years which wrenches at something repressed in me. It concerns the death of a child or girlfriend by bone cancer and describes in economical detail the relationship between the child and protagonist and the inevitable spiraling health and nature of the hospital where most of the song ( Read more... ) -
Study
all i do is study these days. and develop a documentary about The Innocents. http://www.theinnocents.com.au. more will come later, after exams, after clinic, after pharmacology assignment, after business plan is submitted, after i graduate. that is, within six weeks. -
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So I was imagining my trip to Central America next year, Panama to be precise. I was really holding it in my mind and feeling the wet earth beneath my feet, smelling the verdant humidity in the forest and listening for the lapping of the gentle waves against the nearby mangrove-strewn beach. I was walking along a path that followed the shore past ( Read more... ) -
Reassessing The Classics - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
Ah. "The best". According to most modern rock historians this is the greatest album ever released (give or take the odd Pet Sounds, Dark Side Of The Moon, or, if 2007's BBC poll is to be believed, Oasis's Definitely Maybe). Genre-redefining, archetypal, seminal, analysed to death and hyped to maniacal lengths by fans and writers; anybody who ( Read more... )
